Category: 5. Health

Evolution has fostered many reproductive strategies across the spectrum of life. From dandelions to giraffes, nature finds a way.

One of those ways creates quite a bit of suffering for humans: pollen, the infamous male gametophyte of the…

Where you work affects your risk of dying by suicide. For example, loggers, musicians and workers in the oil and gas industries have much higher rates of suicide than the rest of the population.

But on the flip side, some professions have…

In a move that could dramatically reshape the landscape for rare disease treatments, FDA Commissioner Marty Makary has announced plans to create a new pathway for drugs targeting rare conditions. This…

Christopher Syrek, chief of staff of the Department of Veterans Affairs, informed his senior colleagues on March 4 of a Department of Governmental Efficiency-devised plan…

Burkitt lymphoma, a cancer that impacts a subset of immune cells called B cells, develops most often in children and young adults.  Patients with Burkitt lymphoma exhibit elevated levels of a protein called…

As described in a 2025 report on Forbes.com, the president of the Association for University and College Counseling Center Directors argued that schools need to be proactive while addressing…